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Finding full path of file

I'll keep this short and sweet: Given a fragment of the beginning of a full file path, and a fragment of the ending of a full file path, is there an easy way to get the full file path (ie: find the file)?

For example, let's say we have a full file with the path: C:\User\foo\fod\tee\few\file.txt
Given:
1. C:\User\foo
2. few\file.txt

Can I easily find the full path?

My fall-back plan is recursion, but if Java already has some obscure built-in way to do this, it would save me some trouble. The only reason I am asking is because I just stumbled upon java's nio package, which seems like if the functionality already exists, it would be hidden somewhere in there.

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